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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 108, 7 May 1874, Page 2

Mr James Copeland has built a fine brick brewery in Cumberland-street, Dunedin. This year Mr Copeland grew 650 acres of harley at Oaraaru, and obtained a very fine crop. The brewery, when in full working order, will be capable of turning out 300 hogsheads a woek. The boiler, engine, and fittings have all been manufactured at the DuDedin foundries. At the opening of the Provincial Council of Otago, on Thursday, the Superintendent in his address said the past year had been one in which the manifestations of progress had never been greater. The trade returns of exports and imports exhibited a satisfactory increase, with the exception of gold, which showed a slight decrease. This was accounted for by the circumstance tbat many miners had availed themselves of the high wages to be gained on tbe railway contracts. Tbe payments into the Treasury during the year were £451,425, while the expenditure had been £376,507. There had been 258,840 aores of agricultural land sold during the year to 404 purchasers. The agricultural leases on the goldflelds amounted to 30,000 acres, granted to 350 lessees. Measures would be proposed to deepen Dunedin harbor, in order to bring the largest ships up to Dunedin, and for the proclamation of new hundreds, and for the opening of 100,000 acres of land annually under deferred payment. Steps would alsobe taken to give the miners the freehold of the land : they mine on, in order to prevent the wasteful destruction of the surface of .the, country. An Asylum for Inebriates, a" new Industrial School for criminal children, and peveral new lines of branch railways would be constructed with borrowed money, raised on security of specific blocks of land. It would be proposed that the price of land in the Province should be raised to say £8 per acre. He regretted tbat tbe Council and the professors of the Otago University bad agreed to relinquish the powers and status conferred upon the, University by the Provincial Legislature, for the problematic advantage of being connected with the University of New Zealand. He also stated that the Provincial Executive would resign next day. "JE^les" writes in the Australasian: — A particularly wide-awake candidate in tbe recent elections, on a previous occasion, before he bad learnt the secret of cheap electioneering, and the combination of exercise and economy which posting your own bills ensures, had a powerful committee at an Outdistrict. There were 77 tremendously energetic committee men. Being numerous and influential, they were, of course, expensive. Night after night they discussed the candidate's prospects, and refreshed themselves freely at his cost. He polled 17 votes. Since then ho does his own work, and he always gets io.